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FutureChiDoc

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Hey guys,

I've got a random q. It doesn't really fit here, but figured it'd be better to ask a group of rising M3s rather than all the newly-admitted people in the Allo forum.

It's kinda a stupid question, but I just don't know: Do we work everyday during rotations? Do we ever get weekends off? Or work out a weekend schedule?


Or is it pretty much at the hospital everyday?
 
And I thought it was going to be about M3 AML

To answer the OPs questions, its rotation and location dependent. I start on peds and I know I have weekends off unless I'm on call. I also know I get no days off on surgery.
 
FutureChiDoc said:
Hey guys,

I've got a random q. It doesn't really fit here, but figured it'd be better to ask a group of rising M3s rather than all the newly-admitted people in the Allo forum.
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You could try the Clinical Rotations forum.

FutureChiDoc said:
It's kinda a stupid question, but I just don't know: Do we work everyday during rotations? Do we ever get weekends off? Or work out a weekend schedule?


Or is it pretty much at the hospital everyday?
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At my school, this varies by rotation (especially inpatient vs outpatient) and site. However, I think typically inpatient rotations have you working 5-6 days a week with some overnight call, while outpatient rotations are mostly 8-5 M-F.
 
FutureChiDoc said:
Hey guys,

I've got a random q. It doesn't really fit here, but figured it'd be better to ask a group of rising M3s rather than all the newly-admitted people in the Allo forum.

It's kinda a stupid question, but I just don't know: Do we work everyday during rotations? Do we ever get weekends off? Or work out a weekend schedule?


Or is it pretty much at the hospital everyday?
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By law you have to have at least 1 day off in 7.

That said your hours will vary wildly based on rotation and whether you are inpatient (in hospital) or outpt. Out pt will be the same pretty universally from 7 or 8 until 5

Inpatient is a wild card. Some rotations are notorious for terrible hours. Surgery is a prime example: often times you are in the hospital between 430 and 530 and dont get out until 8. My experience has been:

Surgery- 80+ hours a week (almost always at or above 80). You work 6 days a week 12-16h per day. A hard rotation

Psych- 40-50h/wk you work 5 days a week. Inpatient was 7-4ish (sometimes earlier sometimes later)

Family med- 50h/wk 5 days a week.

OB- Depended on the part. Sometimes was 70h/wk sometimes was closer to 50. 5-6 days a week depending on the part

Peds- 65h per week. Work 6 days a week (had to work night float so did have overnight)

Medicine- 55-70h/week working 6 days a week. No o/n calls (night float)

Neuro- 40h/wk. I dont remember much about this rotation b/c it was cush.


On top of your hours in the hospital you will have to study so on long rotations you have almost no real free time.
 
Yea, just going to depend on the rotation.

Currently on IM and the "official" hours are pretty much 7a-7p, but the most of us (students and interns) come in by 6 or a little earlier to get some progress notes written before morning rounds. This month each each student will take 3 overnight calls and we have to come in ~2 weekends for a couple hours to round and write progress notes.
 
Instatewaiter said:
By law you have to have at least 1 day off in 7.
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There is no such law. First, the work hour limitation laws DO NOT APPLY TO MED STUDENTS. Some schools are nice and allow med students to work the same hours as residents or fewer, but there is no national law requiring a med student to do this. Second, the 80 hour work week average for RESIDENTS is a per month average, so you absolutely can have several straight weeks of work without a break. I've known folks who worked 20+ straight days. You generally get 4 days off a month as a resident in the more intense rotations, but they needn't occur weekly.

As to the OP's question, in some rotations (eg psych) you will likely have every weekend off, in many others (OB, IM, Surg) you will more likely have 4 weekend days off a month (one "golden weekend" two split weekends, and one working weekend.
 
Agreed - varies by rotation and location. Peds is the only rotation that I didn't have to work weekends which made it nice. Otherwise, nights, weekends were fair game. 12 hour shifts were the norm.

Oh, you can forget about making up your own schedule from now on until you're an attending and a senior attending at that....To borrow a phrase from the USMC - If your rotation wanted you to have a life, they would have issued you one.....
 
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